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Monday, December 31, 2012

STAKE PRESIDENT APOLOGIZES OVER DISAPPEARING-INK-ON-TEMPLE-RECOMMENDS PRANK

By Clyde Ward

Boca Raton, FL—President Donald Gibbons has apologized for
the prank that he pulled by using disappearing ink on several temple
recommends. The ink that President
Gibbons used was made to disappear after 24 hours, causing embarrassment when
temple patrons arrived with blank recommends.

In his written apology, President Gibbons explained that “he
thought that they would not use their recommends until (their son) Elder Williams took out
his endowments in two weeks” at which time the Stake President would “vouch for
the members at the temple.” As it turned
out, Elder Williams’s parents went to the temple two days before, only to
be turned away because their recommends appeared to be blank.

When asked about the incident, Brother Williams said “I can
laugh about it now, but at the time I was really worried.” Part of Brother Williams’s anxiety came
because President Gibbons had told a long story about ink disappearing from the
recommends of the unworthy. “So when I
got there,” continued Brother Williams, “I was sure that the Lord was holding
me accountable for all the extra breath mints I was popping last fast Sunday.”

Brother and Sister Williams were very relieved to know that
it was just a prank, though both noted that the ride home from the Orlando
temple was very tense. Sister Williams
reportedly asked if perhaps it was not because Brother Williams had “lingered
to long over the bra and panties pictures in the Sunday JCPenney ads.” For his part, Brother Williams accused his
wife of “adding a shot of caffeinated Diet Coke to her Sprite” when they were
at Taco Bell the previous Saturday.

After a heartfelt talk, both agreed to be more exact in
their obedience, but concluded that the Lord may have been punishing both of
them for knowingly allowing their son mislabel the inappropriate music on his
Ipod as “Janice Kapp Perry.”